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I am at my wit's end with this issue.
I just swapped my netbook's hdd out with an ssd. The enclosure is functional, because I created the GPT for the SSD through it before I put it in the netbook.
The hdd is functional, because it worked literally hours before I attempted to run it through the enclosure.
-Windows can partition and format the enclosed hdd just fine. Windows can write files to the hdd.
-Linux can not. It will act as though it can, but the partitions never appear, and the file systems are never written. Deleted files aren't deleted, and new files aren't written.
-In fdisk (and gdisk), the partitions are "created successfully", as in, neither program reports any errors. I write it to disk, everything seems fine. ls /dev/sd* only shows /dev/sdb. No partitions were actually created. I tried partprobe'ing it. No partitions showed.
-In gparted, it will create a linux-swap as the first partition, but then error out when creating sdb2 with: '/dev/sdb: unrecognized disk label'
-I have tried this on two laptops, with both arch and ubuntu.
-I have tried blacklisting the SAT pass-through driver (ums_cypress), because it said you can do that if you just want it to read as a usb mass storage device. It doesn't read anything. When attached without that driver, dmesg says: "new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd; scsi6: usb-storage; direct-access mass storage device". No devnode is made for sdb though.
-With the SAT driver loaded (ums_cypress), dmesg says: "Write protect is off. No cache mode page present. Assuming drive cache: write through"
I absolutely, positively, cannot get linux to write on this hard drive. Does anyone have any insight?
Last edited by hwkiller (2012-03-01 21:17:39)
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